Guggenheim 89/Ford 12--Detroit 1955

"Guggenheim 89/Ford 12--Detroit" is a contact sheet from Robert Frank’s 1955 photobook, "The Americans." Contact sheets are a collection of photographic prints from a roll of film used to select the final images. Frank’s contact sheet captures a glimpse of the American landscape in the mid-20th century, focusing on the industrial world of Detroit and its people. This sheet, with its multiple frames, showcases Frank's documentary style of photography and the raw authenticity he sought to capture.